SAN ANTONIO — The harder they fall, the bigger and tougher they seem when they push themselves back up again.

Now the Warriors are playoff giants, amazing how that works.

The Warriors didn’t just beat San Antonio in Game 2 at the AT&T Center on Wednesday night, though they did that quite convincingly 100-91 to even this series 1-1 with the next two games at Oracle Arena.

More: The Warriors resolved about a million issues, beat back a billion doubts and re-raised the flag of NBA significance.

They’re here. They’re not going away, even if it very much seemed like it just one game ago.

That’s when they kicked away a 16-point lead in the final minutes of regulation in a Game 1 loss.

And then in Game 2, the Warriors held strong, held on and maybe showed they’re a little bit better than the Spurs.

“I think for seven-and-a-half quarters, we’ve played better basketball than (the Spurs) have,” Stephen Curry said as he accepted congratulations walking to the team bus. “So you want more to show for it. But the fact that we came back from that collapse and got this win, it makes up for that feeling.”

The Warriors have arrived, because they won a game they almost lost, after losing a game they absolutely should’ve won.

Their interpretation: Part of the reason they won Game 2 was because of the way they lost Game 1.

They could’ve collapsed in a hangover of pain and frustration. Instead, they used that anger.

“Yesterday was a bitch of a day for us,” center Andrew Bogut said of the reflection time between Games 1 and 2. “We didn’t enjoy it. It was a dog day for us. But we forgot about it today, came to the game with a focus.”

On Wednesday, the Warriors built another huge lead in the first part of this game, as large as 20 points at one stage.

This time they mainly rode the brilliant shooting and defense of Klay Thompson, who scored 29 points in a blistering first half.

Then the Spurs came rallying back in the second half, the home crowd roared, the Warriors’ lead got as small as six points … and it went no further.

The post-game handshake between coaches Jack Del Rio of the Raiders and Andy Reid of the Chiefs eventually came off Thursday night, but it seemed for a while that there’s enough bad blood between the two that it might not happen. Once time ran out in the Chiefs’ 21-13 win that gave K.C. a leg up in the AFC West...